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Save up to $160: Right now, Best Buy is running its Black Friday in July sale, and Amazon Kindles are down to as low as $85. There are plenty of models available, including this 64GB Amazon Kindle Scribe Colorsoft for $520, down from $680. Best Buy’s sale event lasts
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For forty years, the secret language that lets software talk to hardware was owned by a handful of companies. Then a free alternative escaped the lab—and turned chip design into a matter of statecraft. There is a sentence that security researchers, hardware startups, and the governments of at least
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TL;DR Monday.com plans to cut about 620 jobs, 20 percent of staff, as it restructures around its AI-driven growth strategy and flatter organisation Monday.com is cutting roughly 20 percent of its global workforce, about 620 people, as the Israeli project management company restructures around what it calls
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TL;DR Meta hired Assaf Keren as its new CISO from Qualtrics and PayPal, replacing Guy Rosen who announced his departure in June Meta has hired Assaf Keren as its next chief information security officer, filling a vacancy created when Guy Rosen announced his departure in June after 13 years
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TL;DR Federal agencies pledged over $5 billion to the Genesis Mission, funding 278 AI-for-science projects selected from more than 5,000 applications Federal agencies have committed more than $5 billion to the Genesis Mission, an Energy Department-led effort to use artificial intelligence to accelerate scientific research, White House science
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Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. Most carriers track everything. Cape doesn't. — Unlimited talk, text &
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Tesla is no longer planning to reach “volume production” of three of its newest products – the Cybercab, the Tesla Semi, and its Megapack 3 commercial energy storage solution – in 2026, according to a second-quarter shareholder letter published Wednesday. The company also removed language from its first-quarter letter about its Optimus
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U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent doubled down on his warnings to Chinese AI companies on Wednesday, saying that sanctions remain on the table after a White House official accused Moonshot of improperly distilling Anthropic’s Fable model. Model distillation is a common AI training technique in which a smaller
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Inflection AI, the Palo Alto startup that two years ago became Silicon Valley's most famous cautionary tale about the brutal economics of frontier AI, announced Tuesday that it is returning to the consumer market with a new research division and an experimental product built around a provocative thesis:
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You spend weeks tuning an AI chatbot. Answers are accurate. Stakeholders sign off, and you ship it. Three months later, the system is confidently wrong about a third of what users ask. Nobody changed the model, and nobody touched the prompts. The world moved, pricing changed, a policy updated, a
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Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. Most carriers track everything. Cape doesn't. — Unlimited talk, text &
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